The NBA and the world of architecture have more in common than exceedingly tall celebrity players — testosterone and a penchant for the gaudy, for instance.

We’ve come to expect a certain over the top-ness from professional basketball, from the in-your-face logos, fluorescent shoes, deafening games and showboating, thunder-dunking players. | Sept. 27, 2013»Read Full Blog Post(15)

On the heels of Milwaukee Beer Week, today is the opener for American Craft Beer Week. In addition to previously announced beer news, brewers and taverns are adding more events. | May 12, 2014»Read Full Article

He said the businesss never fully recovered after a fire in December 2012, which broke out only a few weeks after the restaurant had been remodeled and given a new name and focus. The restaurant had been Palms Bistro & Bar since its opening in 2002, although it changed hands in 2007. | May 12, 2014»Read Full Blog Post

David Downing has been operating exceptionally well in John LeCarre country for a while with his series of WWII spy novels named after Berlin train stations. With “Jack of Spies” (Soho Crime, $26.95), Downing treads into fresh territory, the rising nationalist movements in Europe and Asia, including Ireland and India’s independence movements, leading up to WWI. Under the guise of selling luxury cars to emperors and kings, Scottish born Jack spies for “piecework” for the fledgling British Secret Service. Claiming to be “a sad sack of linguistic skills,” Jack is actually a genius at languages. After an incident in a brothel with one of his sources, he flees China. Along the way, he falls for an Irish-American journalist and suffragette whose Brooklyn family may have ties to the Irish Republican Army. As I was reading, I kept thinking this novel would be terrific theatre – Masterpiece, that is. | May 12, 2014»Read Full Blog Post

Milwaukee County Parks announced the full line-up of its free summer music series Monday morning, announcing 89 free concerts--from national touring artist Nick Waterhouse to BoDeans co-founder Sam Llanas to local pop rock favorite Vic and Gab, at Boerner Botanical Gardens, Cathedral Square, Humboldt Park and other locations.

For more information, visit countyparks.com and search "free concerts," or call (414) 257-7275. | May 12, 2014»Read Full Article

It was announced Friday that NBC had canceled the ratings-troubled but creatively clever and critically acclaimed anti-sitcom created by Milwaukee native Dan Harmon. | May 12, 2014»Read Full Blog Post(5)

After weeks of trying, John Legend finally ended Pharrel Williams' 10-week hot streak at the top of the Billboard Hot 100. Watch the video for our new chart-topping champion below and then look back in time to see which songs were the biggest in the land this week in 2004, 1994, 1984 and 1974.